I am using the Aspose Words for Java. And I have to draw something and include images in my Word document. I was told that those features would be available on the last day of October, 2006. And I have been waiting. Today is the 31st of October. Oh Oh, I am dying for them.
Hi,
We are performing code polishing and it is almost ready... It will be out in 1-2 days.
Thanks for the message. While waiting for the drawing feature, would anybody kindly show me how to code to:
1. draw a circle and fill the circle with a color with a big Y or N in the center of the circle?
2. draw arrows (a both right pointing and left pointing arrow, or a downwardly pointing arrow) with the thinkness almost like block arrows?
Thanks a lot for help. The help that I have received on this forum is so far very good.
I can provide a sample snippet to show you the idea. The code is in C#, I hope my colleague Konstantin who is a Java developer will convert it to Java shortly. The snippet creates and inserts two shapes into a document one of which is a filled circle and another one is a filled arrow. If you have any further questions regarding the code, please let me know.
Document doc = new Document();
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
Shape circleShape = new Shape(doc, ShapeType.Ellipse);
circleShape.Left = 100;
circleShape.Top = 100;
circleShape.FillColor = Color.DarkMagenta;
circleShape.Width = 100;
circleShape.Height = 100;
builder.InsertNode(circleShape);
Shape arrowShape = new Shape(doc, ShapeType.Arrow);
arrowShape.Left = 100;
arrowShape.Top = 200;
arrowShape.Width = 200;
arrowShape.Height = 100;
arrowShape.FillColor = Color.Lime;
builder.InsertNode(arrowShape);
doc.Save("MyDocument.doc");
Thanks for giving me the idea.
Is it possible to write a big letter 'Y' in the Ellipse?
Can we draw "a" bi-directional pointing one in arrow shape?
Well, I think it is too early to get into those details without the ability to test them out.
By means of the rich Aspose.Words 4.0 functionality it's pretty easy ![Smile [:)]](/Community/emoticons/emotion-1.gif)
Here's the improved sample that seems to produce the result you want:
Document doc = new Document();
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
Shape circleShape = new Shape(doc, ShapeType.Ellipse);
circleShape.Left = 100;
circleShape.Top = 100;
circleShape.FillColor = Color.Red;
circleShape.Width = 100;
circleShape.Height = 100;
builder.InsertNode(circleShape);
Shape yLetter = new Shape(doc, ShapeType.TextPlainText);
yLetter.TextPath.Text = "Y";
yLetter.Left = 100 + 20;
yLetter.Top = 100 + 20;
yLetter.Width = 60;
yLetter.Height = 60;
yLetter.FillColor = Color.White;
builder.InsertNode(yLetter);
Shape arrowShape = new Shape(doc, ShapeType.UpDownArrow);
arrowShape.Left = 100;
arrowShape.Top = 200;
arrowShape.Width = 50;
arrowShape.Height = 100;
arrowShape.FillColor = Color.Lime;
builder.InsertNode(arrowShape);
doc.Save("MyDocument.doc");
Wow! They look really nice. Exactly like what I expect to have.
I cannot wait till the drawing feature becomes available!